Album Name Viewing

I'd like to know if there is a simple way to view Albums by the Album Name as it appears on itunes and not sub-catergorized into the Artists within them.
For example, I have created my own Album which has single tracks from various artists, but are all of the same genre, i.e Album Mix 1 is a compliation of Rock/Metal artists. However, when viewing this on my new ipod 5th gen I can see the tree now exists as: Music > Album > Artist within the Album. I would just like to be able to view Albums by name rather than artist. If I wanted to view songs by an artist, there is a pretty obvious option for this. So why is there a merge between Album name and Album Artist? I know already what artist is within which album, so I do not need the ipod telling me who is in what.
I've never had any issues regarding this with any other previous ipod models, and would like to know if there is a way that I can view Albums by Album name on my 5th gen, and not their content. I have been trying to look around for answers, and it seems alot of people are finding this feature a nuisance, and there are no clear answers, so I am making my question plain and simple.

and even when I go to advanced - get Cd track names :
the error msg =
"unable to connect to the CDDB server. the network connection was refused. make sure your internet connection is active and your network settings are correct."
so what to do ?
wim

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Woohoo!
I'm a little drunk right now, it being saturday night, but giving this a cursory and immediate look-over,
it appears to me that this is exactly what I wanted!
And also, it seems kind of basic and stupid of me that I have missed it. It seems kind of foolish of me, not fully exploring the "view" menu.
Of course I explored it a bit, but I did not think that the column browser would contain what I needed / wanted.
I kind of wrongly assumed that all views were on the GUI, but now that I think about it, that makes no sense. The GUI never shows everything in any app.....
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vonlandc wrote:
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